Color

#8397a5

#8397a5
hex#8397a5
rgbrgb(131, 151, 165)
hslhsl(205, 16%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.665 0.031 238.5)
Closest name: Blank Stare (#8b9cac)Relative luminance 0.2968

Colors that go with #8397a5

Charcoal, Peru and Blush Pink lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Real palettes that use #8397a5

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a59183

#83a5a2 · #8386a5

#a58397 · #97a583

Split-complementary

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#a58386 · #a5a283

#a283a5 · #a59183 · #86a583

Contrast

#8397a5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.03:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #637888 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #495965 as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.68:1)
Aaon black
6.94:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8699a7 as the text (7.13:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8397a5 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8397a5
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #8397a5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8397a5-9cafc4-df4e58-1f212d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md